As we include more insight from those with lived experience, the medical and mental health fields are slowly moving away from ...

Researchers identified statistically coherent patterns in whale song that may be a signature of cultural learning.

Our study aimed to investigate the longitudinal relationship between infant temperament and early language development, also considering infant gender, gestational age, and birthweight. Early ...

Psychologist Paul Ekman has distinguished between smiles that represent genuine happiness (“Duchenne” smiles), and fake smiles that might be used to feign happiness, or cover some other emotion.

Often recognized as a phrase with deeper meaning in many relationships and our society as a whole, the phrase “I’m fine” can ...

Timothy Jay, a scholar in the science of swearing, has a few choice words about why we curse and how to cut back (if you want ...

Jan. 28, 2025 — A new study explores the effects of both recent and lifetime cannabis use on brain function during cognitive tasks. The study, the largest of its kind ever to be completed ...

Interpreting is generally recognized as a particularly demanding language processing task for the cognitive system. Dependency distance, the linear distance between two syntactically related words in ...

Taught by leading academics and clinicians at Anna Freud and UCL’s Division of Psychology and Language Sciences, the new online Psychology and Trauma postgraduate course allows you to explore the ...

Dec. 16, 2024 — A study is the first-of-its-kind to recognize American Sign Language (ASL) alphabet gestures using computer vision. Researchers developed a custom ... Mothers' Language Choices ...

Literacy is foundational—not only for academic success but as a fundamental skill for navigating life. Yet literacy rates in ...